The Darren Sharper story continues to get ickier. After initial reports that the former Saints defensive superstar had been arrested for rapes in Los Angeles and was being investigated for rape in New Orleans, there were a disturbing number of folks willing to assume that Sharper had been trapped by gold-diggers. That's what women do, these folks argued: set their sights on a wealthy man, sleep with him and make an unwarranted rape accusation when he tosses them aside. Now authorities have said that Sharper is accused of drugging the women and raping them while they were unconscious. That new information doesn't prove Sharper's guilt, but it should shut up folks who respond to stories about alleged rapes with their low opinions of women.

On Tuesday USA Today published a story that mentioned Sharper's remarkable advocacy on behalf of women and their issues. In 2010, for example, he wrote an essay that was published in "NFL Dads Dedicated to Daughters," an anthology that should be required reading for the people who reflexively revealed their hatred of women when Sharper was arrested. The anthology was a project of a group named A Call To Men, which seeks to make men more vocal about ending violence against women.

USA Today also points out that on at least two occasions, Sharper sent out tweets advertising football camps for women around the time he's accused of plying women with drugs and alcohol and raping them. On Oct. 31, the day after two women in Los Angeles say he drugged and raped them, Sharper tweeted information about a women's football camp to promote breast cancer awareness: "Get your tix!" he tweeted. "You will be touched in many ways."